The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
New Line Cinema | Release Date: October 17, 2003 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
38
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 33 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
15
Negative:
13
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
Baltimore SunChris Kaltenbach
Simply go out and rent the original. In the thin ranks of killer-power-tool flicks, it's still the standard to beat. Read full review
38
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
This new, presumably improved Chainsaw is just as humorless as the original, but it's also slicker, glossier and resoundingly artificial. Read full review
33
Portland OregonianKim Morgan
For those who've seen the original, no surprises will be unearthed other than an altered story (not for the better) and more gore. Read full review
30
The New York TimesDave Kehr
Rather than exhilaration, this bilious film offers only entrapment and despair. It's about as much fun as sitting in on an autopsy. Read full review
30
VarietyScott Foundas
Initially promising, but quickly disappointing. Read full review
30
Washington PostRichard Harrington
Weakens, dilutes, disinfects and otherwise undermines the legacy of Tobe Hooper's 1974 original. Read full review
30
Village VoiceMichael Atkinson
An overproduced, video-director remake, slick and grue-marinated and loud as a sonic boom. Read full review
25
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
I don't know if Nispel and Scott Kosar, who make their feature film debuts here, are the worst director and writer in the world, though they might well represent the United States if anyone holds a competition. I do know they deliver a total of zero laughs, scares or surprises in this remake of the infamously creepy 1974 picture. Read full review
25
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
Efforts to expand the envelope of grotesquery make the film repulsive and suspenseless, and it sorely misses original director Tobe Hooper's grisly, wily sense of humor. Read full review
25
New York PostLou Lumenick
Significantly more gruesome and noisy than its predecessor, and boasting more nasty-looking fluids than all the works of David Fincher combined, this version leaves few corpses unturned in its unstinting campaign to please gorehounds. Read full review
20
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
This new SAW film is so utterly unimaginative it doesn't even count as hommage; it's just a smudgy copy of a still chilling original. Read full review
20
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
Offers the same crudely effective variation on the hatred and fear of hillbillies in "Deliverance." Read full review
0
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
A contemptible film: Vile, ugly and brutal. There is not a shred of a reason to see it. Read full review
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